{"id":6814,"date":"2022-04-26T15:53:13","date_gmt":"2022-04-26T15:53:13","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/?post_type=chapter&#038;p=6814"},"modified":"2022-08-31T03:05:16","modified_gmt":"2022-08-31T03:05:16","slug":"historical-hack-how-to-do-research","status":"publish","type":"chapter","link":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/chapter\/historical-hack-how-to-do-research\/","title":{"raw":"Historical Hack: The Research Process","rendered":"Historical Hack: The Research Process"},"content":{"raw":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: gain the research skills necessary to complete research of a topic or individual in history<\/h2>\r\nOne of the most essential skills of a historian is the ability to conduct research. Research is the way we glean information about the past. In this historical hack, we will learn how to complete the research process. This work often begins with a very broad idea for a topic you'd like to know more about. Then, you narrow it down to develop a focused research question. That question can fuel your investigation as you go search for articles, journals, books, and primary and secondary sources related to your question.","rendered":"<h2>What you\u2019ll learn to do: gain the research skills necessary to complete research of a topic or individual in history<\/h2>\n<p>One of the most essential skills of a historian is the ability to conduct research. Research is the way we glean information about the past. In this historical hack, we will learn how to complete the research process. This work often begins with a very broad idea for a topic you&#8217;d like to know more about. Then, you narrow it down to develop a focused research question. That question can fuel your investigation as you go search for articles, journals, books, and primary and secondary sources related to your question.<\/p>\n\n\t\t\t <section class=\"citations-section\" role=\"contentinfo\">\n\t\t\t <h3>Candela Citations<\/h3>\n\t\t\t\t\t <div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <div id=\"citation-list-6814\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t <div class=\"licensing\"><div class=\"license-attribution-dropdown-subheading\">CC licensed content, Original<\/div><ul class=\"citation-list\"><li>Historical Hack: The Research Process. <strong>Authored by<\/strong>: Yasmin Forbes for Lumen Learning. <strong>Provided by<\/strong>: Lumen Learning. <strong>License<\/strong>: <em><a target=\"_blank\" rel=\"license\" href=\"https:\/\/creativecommons.org\/licenses\/by\/4.0\/\">CC BY: Attribution<\/a><\/em><\/li><\/ul><\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t <\/div>\n\t\t\t <\/section>","protected":false},"author":169554,"menu_order":15,"template":"","meta":{"_candela_citation":"[{\"type\":\"original\",\"description\":\"Historical Hack: The Research Process\",\"author\":\"Yasmin Forbes for Lumen Learning\",\"organization\":\"Lumen Learning\",\"url\":\"\",\"project\":\"\",\"license\":\"cc-by\",\"license_terms\":\"\"}]","CANDELA_OUTCOMES_GUID":"5cfc29bd-b5bd-44f7-b659-29a13f3339ff","pb_show_title":"on","pb_short_title":"","pb_subtitle":"","pb_authors":[],"pb_section_license":""},"chapter-type":[],"contributor":[],"license":[],"class_list":["post-6814","chapter","type-chapter","status-publish","hentry"],"part":230,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6814","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/chapter"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/169554"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6814\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":9345,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6814\/revisions\/9345"}],"part":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/parts\/230"}],"metadata":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapters\/6814\/metadata\/"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6814"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"chapter-type","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/pressbooks\/v2\/chapter-type?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"contributor","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/contributor?post=6814"},{"taxonomy":"license","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/courses.lumenlearning.com\/wm-ushistory2\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/license?post=6814"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}